Five Plays
Five Plays

Author: Thomas Middleton

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780140432190

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Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.

Textual Intercourse
Textual Intercourse

Author: Jeffrey Masten

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-02-20

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780521589208

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Textual Intercourse proposes that the language and practice of writing plays in early modern England was inextricably linked to languages and practices of eroticism, sexuality and reproduction. Jeffrey Masten reads a range of early modern materials - burial records, contemporary biographical anecdotes and theatrical records, essays, conduct books and poems; the printed apparatus of published plays, and the plays themselves - to illustrate the ways in which writing for the theatre shifted from a model of homoerotic collaboration toward one of singular authorship on a patriarchal-absolutist model. Plays and collections of plays by Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Fletcher, Beaumont and Fletcher, Margaret Cavendish, and others, are considered. Textual Intercourse illustrate the ways in which methods attuned to sexuality and gender can illuminate more traditional questions of authorship, attribution, textual editing and intellectual property.

Four Restoration Libertine Plays
Four Restoration Libertine Plays

Author: Deborah Payne Fisk

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2005-04-14

Total Pages: 1559

ISBN-13: 019160528X

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Thomas Shadwell, The Libertine * George Etherege, The Man of Mode * Thomas Durfey, A Fond Husband * Thomas Otway, Friendship in Fashion These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series capture the range of responses to the fashionable and daring libertine movement in the second half of the seventeenth century. A Fond Husband and Friendship in Fashion are lesser-known comic gems of the Restoration stage; The Man of Mode is Etherege's masterpiece, and The Libertine is Shadwell's experimental and dark version of the Don Juan story. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. There is a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation, and an informative bibliography which together illuminate the plays' cultural context and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. 'The series should shape the canon in a number of significant areas. A splendid and imaginative project.' Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University

Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey

Author: Kenneth Muir

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-11-28

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780521523615

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The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.

British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue
British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue

Author: Martin Wiggins

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-09-13

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 0199265720

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Volume 3 covers the years 1590-1597 and sees the start of Shakespeare's career as a dramatist.